Old Folks-Charlie Parker

[ti:Old Folks] [ar:Charlie Parker] [al:Best of the Essential Years: Charlie Parker] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.73]Old Folks - Charlie Parker (查理·帕克) [00:02.88]Written by：Robison Willard/Hill Dedette Lee [00:04.20] [00:11.99]Everyone knows him as old folks [00:15.89] [00:16.87]Like the seasons he comes and he'll go [00:21.90] [00:22.74]Just as free as a bird [00:26.36]And as good as his word [00:28.77] [00:29.37]That's why everybody loves him so [00:34.18] [00:35.27]Always leaving his spoon in his coffee [00:39.65] [00:40.72]Tucks his napkin up under his chin [00:45.33] [00:46.77]And his own corn cob pipe is so mellow [00:51.47]Hits right [00:52.00] [00:52.99]But you needn't be ashamed of him [00:57.22] [01:24.29]One thing we don't know about old folks [01:26.71] [01:28.12]Did he fight for the blue or the gray [01:32.58] [01:33.84]But he's so democratic and so diplomatic [01:39.65] [01:40.44]We always let him have his way [01:44.88] [02:33.85]In the evenings after supper [02:38.44] [02:39.11]What stories she'll tell [02:43.96] [02:45.46]How he held his speech [02:46.93]At Gettysburg for Lincoln that day [02:51.00] [02:52.29]I know that one so well [02:56.59] [02:57.79]Some day there will be no more old folks [03:01.96] [03:03.54]What a lonely old world this will be [03:08.72] [03:09.54]Children's voices at play will be still fonding [03:14.90] [03:15.74]The day they take old folks away